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1993-02-09 09:30:05
A New Internet Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
directories. This draft is a work item of the Internet Message 
Extensions Working Group of the IETF.                                 

       Title     : Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format
                   of Internet Message Bodies                         
       Author(s) : N. Borenstein, N. Freed
       Filename  : draft-ietf-822ext-mime2-00.txt, .ps
       Pages     : 94

RFC 822 defines a message representation protocol which specifies 
considerable detail about message headers, but which leaves the 
message content, or message body, as flat ASCII text.  This document 
redefines the format of message bodies to allow multi-part textual and
non-textual message bodies to be represented and exchanged without 
loss of information.  

This is based on earlier work documented in RFC 934 and RFC 1049, 
but extends and revises that work. Because RFC 822 said so  
little about message bodies, this document is largely orthogonal 
to (rather than a revision of) RFC 822. 

In particular, this document is designed to provide facilities to 
include multiple objects in a single message, to represent body 
text in character sets other than US-ASCII, to represent formatted 
multi-font text messages, to represent non-textual material such as 
images and audio fragments, and generally to facilitate later 
extensions defining new types of  Internet mail for use by 
cooperating mail agents. 

This document does NOT extend Internet mail header fields to permit 
anything other then US-ASCII text data.                                         
          

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